hadoop top 20 influencers of 2015

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Hadoop  Top  20  Influencers  for  2015    

By  Tom  Howells,  Staff  Writer,  Fraud  &  Technology  Wire    In  our  2015  predictions,  published  at  the  end  of  2014,  we  suggested  that  2015  would  be  the  year  of  native  Hadoop  applications.  This  has  proven  to  be  the  case.  The  validity  of  this  prediction  was  confirmed  by  the  focus  around  Hadoop  applications  at  the  Strata  conferences  this  year  and  in  multiple  other  forums  and  publications.  In  light  of  the  growing  focus  on  Hadoop,  we  have  compiled  a  list  of  the  top  20  most  influential  individuals  around  the  space.  

To  create  this  list  we  used  the  Twitter  applications  LittleBird  and  Right  Relevance.  Both  applications  have  a  formula  to  calculate  the  most  influential  Twitter  handles  around  particular  topics.  We  combined  these  two  rankings,  awarding  20  points  for  being  the  most  influential  on  a  platform,  to  give  each  influencer  a  score  out  of  40.  Tie  breakers  were  awarded  to  the  individual  with  the  most  followers.  

Cloudera  in  particular  has  a  very  strong  presence  in  the  rankings,  employing  four  of  the  top  five  individual  contributors  and  over  a  quarter  of  the  20  most  active  authors.  

 The  Hadoop  Top  20  Influencers  for  2015  are:  

Rank       Name   Twitter  Handle   Followers       Company   H-­‐Score  

1   Mike  Olson   @mikeolson   19.5K   Chief  Strategy,  Cloudera   38  

2   Jeff  Hammerbacher       @hackingdata   24.5K   Founder,  Cloudera   37  

3   Doug  Cutting   @cutting   16.3K   Chief  Architect,  Cloudera   37  

4   Todd  Lipcon   @tlipcon   9.7K  Software  Engineer,  Cloudera  

26  

5   Arun  C  Murthy   @acmurthy   13.6K   Founder,  Hortonworks   25  

6   Jay  Kreps   @jaykreps   12.6K   CEO,  Confluent   19  7   Merv  Adrian   @merv   22.6K   VP,  Gartner   18  

8   Ben  Lorica   @bigdata   29.3K  Chief  Data  Scientist,  O’Reilly  Media  

16  

9   Mike  Gualtieri   @mgualtieri   36.9K   Analyst,  Forrester   15  

10   Eric  Sammer   @esammer   7.7K   CTO,  Rocana   15  

11   Kirk  Borne   @KirkDBorne   54.4K  

Principal  Data  Scientist,  Booz  Allen  Hamilton  

14  

12   Tom  White   @tom_e_white   5.6K  Software  Engineer,  Cloudera  

14  

13   Peter  Skomoroch   @peteskomoroch       27K  Startup  Co-­‐Founder  and  CEO  

13  

14   Eric  Baldeschwieler   @jeric14   5.1K  Hadoop  Technical  Advisor  

13  

15   Doug  Laney   @Doug_Laney   36.3K   VP  Research,  Gartner   12  

16   John  Ching   @HadoopNews   7.2K  Chief  Data  Officer,  Terapeak  

12  

17   Amr  Awadallah   @awadallah   14.4K   Founder,  Cloudera   11  

18   Tony  Baer   @tonybaer   8.8K   Principal  Analyst,  Ovum   11  

19   DJ  Patil   @dpatil   30.5K  

Chief  Data  Scientist,  The  White  House  

9  

20   Jeff  Kelly   @jeffreyfkelly   8K  Data  Strategist,  Pivotal  Software  Inc.      

9  

   LittleBird  offers  a  feature  which  shows  all  of  the  other  influencers  to  whom  a  particular  expert  is  connected.  It  also  divides  them  into  communities.  Below  is  an  illustration  of  the  biggest  community,  which  provides  a  graphical  representation  of  the  large  proportion  of  people  connected  to  Cloudera.    

   In  our  predictions  for  2016,  we  wrote  that  packaged  machine  learning  applications  built  natively  on  Hadoop  will  become  the  preferred  way  to  detect  fraud  and  revenue  threats  in  mobile  networks  against  massive  communication  service  provider  (CSP)  data  lakes.  In  our  next  post  we  will  look  at  the  top  influencers  in  machine  learning  from  2015.            

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